THE MANHATTAN PIONEERS           19

in the Greater Netherlands, as surely as did
the symbol of the lion minted on his guilder;
while the one sentiment which dominated all was
that of William, " the Father of the Fatherland,"
— "I will maintain."

The Dutchmen faced bravely their new respon¬
sibilities of national expansion. In Patria, a new
school was called forth by the necessities of coloni¬
zation in Asia and America. Under the patronage
of the India companies, the city of Leyden, which
furnished the first settlers of both Massachusetts
and New York, instituted a seminary for the train¬
ing of missionaries. It was founded in the same
year, 1622, that saw the organization in Rome of
the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Out
of this Leyden school went forth famous scholars
and teachers; among others, George Candidus
and Robert elunius of Formosa. The Dutch made
good their professed desire to convert the abori¬
gines to a higher form of faith, and to uplift them
through education, and their records show it.
Henceforth the school and church, schoolmaster
and Domine, were to go in the ship with the pioneers
from Patria. By the terms of his call and ordination
vows, the Domine served on both land and water.

Such was the beginning of New Netherland. As
explored and occupied by the Dutch, it included
the region between the Connecticut and the Sus¬
quehanna rivers, watered by the streams rising in
the Catskills and the Adirondacks.